Geek deals: AT&T Penny Sale on iPhone 4, Lumia 900, others

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Mobile devices, you know, smartphones and tablets, are one of the fastest moving tech categories today. Manufacturers are at a serious hustle trying to innovate at breakneck pace and find the right combination of features that will make the next “iPhone.” As a result, the market is saturated with a lot of devices to hopefully meet the various needs of every consumer that are quickly “outdated” by the latest and greatest.

While this may make things confusing for consumers, in the end we win in the product department. This leaves customers with a surplus of perfectly good phones on the market that quickly drop from their $200-300 starting price point to ridiculous levels, which is what our deal post today is all about.

AT&T’s penny sale has a slew of awesome phones available for, you guessed it, just a penny! Of course you must sign a new 2 year contract to get these phones for just a penny, but that’s the rub with any subsidized phone. Probably the most attractive to the wild masses is the refurbished iPhone 4 on this list. The iPhone 4s didn’t add a whole lot over the iPhone 4, so most users won’t miss much; especially for just a penny.

The HTC Vivid is another standout, this time a new-in-box model, sporting a 4.5-inch high resolution SuperLCD display and running Android with v4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” available. The Motorola Atrix HD, with its expansive HD screen, is a perfect example of the short product cycle victims; while a perfectly good phone across the board, it was just quickly eclipsed by new releases.

If you’re not an iPhone or Android person, fret not: both Blackberry and Windows Phone devices are eligible as well. The Nokia Lumia 900 was a very strong first entrant into the Windows Phone space; you can also choose the HTC Titan II with its impressively large 4.7-inch screen. Blackberry lovers (hello, are you out there?) can get the Bold 9900 or Torch 9810 in refurbished guise.

All of the phones in this sale come with free overnight shipping to boot; we all know how waiting for our new toys to arrive can be downright agonizing. While this offer should be available to both new and existing customers, you existing customers will have to login to your AT&T account to determine eligibility.